Chart Time indicator to find Lag in seconds and milliseconds
It will display three things in the upper right corner of the chart:
• The core time of NT8
• The chart time of NT8
• The difference of the two times (if the Chart time is behind the core time, it will be a negative number).
EXAMPLE
Here is an example of what you will see in the upper right corner of your chart when you load the indicator on your chart:
12:29:28:529 12:29:28:257 -00.272
USE
I watch this indicator near the start and end of the regular session when my charts will typically lag the market. While trading these times or any other high volume times, when I see a chart lag, I then use the DOM to ensure I see the fastest pricing information that NT8 offers (that I have found).
I didn't build the indicator, just found it on ninjatrader forum (it seems to me that more people are having problems with the lagging of ninjatrader)
March 6th, 2020
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hobbys11
This indicator will add buttons to the Chart Trader which will allow you to quickly change the quantity of the contracts. The buttons can be set to a custom quantity.
Previously I only had this indicator posted on Ninja Support....(but based on requests, I've added it to the BMT downloads area. As I get time, I will modify and improve the code)
Ninja charts currently do not provide an automated method....(at least none I know of)....to set a 'visual scale' on Price.
Ninja allows manually scaling of the chart, but when price moves outside the desired range, Ninja requires you to..."click the F box"...in the upper left hand corner to regain scaling, and then repeat the manual process all over again. This means that when price narrows, the smaller swings take up the entire chart, causing small swings to visually appear the same size as larger swings....and causing small candles to elongate on the chart.
I have coded a very basic "scaling indicator" that will hold the Ninja charts in a desired tick range (y axis up-down). When price narrows, the chart scale will remain as you set it and the candlesticks will paint themselves showing visually appropriate swings. When/If price starts swinging significantly and moves outside of your scaled range, the indicator lets Ninja scaling take over...so price always remains within the bounds of your chart.
The ChartScale indicator automatically adjusts to any market "tick size"....and calculates the scaling range based on your settings...
- Lookback Period
- Desired # of ticks for right hand y axis
The indicator adds the appropriate amount of 'space' to the top and bottom of the chart when price narrows, maintaining a visual perspective that reflects the narrowed price swing.
NOTE: The 'blue lines' on the example are simply to help illustrate the comparison, they do not actually draw on the chart
July 24th, 2011
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photog53
Exported with NT7.0.0.18
ChartTrader is a NinjaTrader strategy which acts as an alternative to the inbuilt Chart Trader.
Since the inbuilt chart trader and strategies cannot be used simultaneously i have built this strategy. One can place manual buy sell orders through chart trader.
July 3rd, 2010
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bukkan
Here is an indicator to customize Ninja's ChartTrader. It allows you to customize the layout and visibility of the 8 standard order control buttons. Additionally when a position is open, it will hide all of those ChartTrader buttons as well as disabling the right-click context menu choices for buy and sell.
It helps to reduce distractions and allows one to focus on a single order, which some may find useful, as I have.
I want to recognize those who posted the code that helped me put this together. Thanks to @SilverDragon for the code to customize layout and visibility of the buttons. You can find a more thorough explanation plus a great video in his post at https://nexusfi.com/elite-circle/25463-customize-chart-trader-buttons.html. Also thanks to @ninjatrader_Bertrand for the nice trick on determining market position from within an indicator.
Note that any chart on which this indicator is running will have it's ChartTrader buttons hidden and context menu buy/sell choices disabled whenever there is an open position on any instrument. This is beta 1.0.01. For educational purposes only. Use at your own risk.
NinjaTrader by default disables the Chart Trader when one uses any strategy. This is a limitation which often bogs traders. Chart Trader indicator demonstrates how to send orders via an indicator.
Here in the sample indicator you can send Limit orders, through two additional buttons in the chart trader. The orders can be modified/cancelled from the chart or from the SuperDom.
The indicator is tested in Sim and Interactive Brokers DEMO account. Trade it live entirely at your own risk.
Use the indicator entirely at your own risk. Under no circumstances the author be held responsible for any damages, whatsoever, arising out of the use of this indicator.
May 9th, 2011
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bukkan
This indicator will allow the user to hide and rearrange the Chart Trader buttons within Ninja Trader.
Important: This indicator is just out of the beta stage. There is some important things to know to get it to work properly. Please take 6 minutes to watch the video in the link below. Finally, this changes the default functionality of the Ninja Trader. This was tested with NT7 using the built in SIM account. Use at your own risk!
January 22nd, 2013
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Silver Dragon
Here is an indicator that I had my programmer whip up for me as I was looking at adding time and volatility for use with Range and Renko bars.
Average Bars per minute - if the average time per minute then smoothed by a moving average is over x period of time - don't trade.
Period and Signal are from the ADX component of the DM, the reason I had my programmer use DM instead of just the ADX is to experiment with the +DI and -DI. But the + and -DI and not functional in this version but instead time per bar is used. As always my indicators have JAM in front so I can keep them in one place. Feel free to rename for your own organization process.
(Vendor License taken out sorry)
JAM
February 13th, 2014 03:36 AM Sezor Thanks for this.
Are there any tokens in Nt for things like <instrument name > ?
July 22nd, 2013 12:54 AM Amsterdam Whale I'm so awed at this particular moment by the power of groups of strangers sharing one particular goal.... we give wholeh
eartedly and with genuine pleasure at furthering the success of another. In fact in this kind situation we so naturaly a
nd without even a moment's consideration, act as someone who understands that in many instances doing something for othe
rs furthers our interests more than if one were to do the exact same thing for ourselves. Thanks for this tool, it's no
small thing.
December 29th, 2012 04:20 PM Silver Dragon Very useful. Thanks!
March 23rd, 2012 02:46 AM jwdixon Great Help!!!!Thanks
May 9th, 2014 06:03 AM TrendTraderBH This helps somewhat but is it possible for NT to automatically place a limit order 1 or 2 ticks "behind" price (ie. in a
n uptrending market) once a certain defined price level is hit.
For example, when price hits 1880.75, NT automatically places a live buy limit order at 1880.25
EDIT: Also, I had NT test the indicator and they were unable to attach an ATM Strategy to the Entry order and said that
in order to attach and ATM Strategy this would required custom programming. Is there another version available that al
lows ATM Strategies to be used.
October 1st, 2012 10:58 AM asteriskstar is it possible to update the limit price to last bar's high/low automatically ?
April 15th, 2012 11:59 AM Florida99 Thank you for the work and sharing
June 19th, 2011 03:29 PM coolfutures Thank you very useful.
June 16th, 2011 02:42 AM ValLiant has anyone modified it so that if you have a strategy enabled you can still trade off the charts? would be a great addi
March 23rd, 2012 07:51 AM Arpad This is an amazing little utility!
Thanks!
September 5th, 2011 09:15 AM learning0101
July 26th, 2011 09:10 PM skyfly This is really really good. I hate always having to screw around with the scaling, while trading is going on, just to ge
t it to "look" right. I do not know why in NT7 they haven't taken care of this, would be so simple to fix.
October 31st, 2015 01:25 PM manualtrader excellent, thank you!
January 27th, 2014 06:49 PM alexJetski amazing thanks
February 13th, 2013 03:12 PM artfuls when I close a workspace and bring it back up and have 3 chart traders up on 3 different charts some come up wright and
some not te buttons are not how i left them....dont no why thanks artfuls
April 28th, 2021 08:43 AM bluedot thanks for the indicator!
January 31st, 2021 05:23 PM Ride the Wind H,
Is their a NT8 Version? I have been looking this feature? Great work.
September 19th, 2018 02:40 PM delta9100 thank you
I was using it for nt7 do you have made oft nt8
December 19th, 2014 12:28 PM Bvend Excellent for spot forex
November 14th, 2013 11:43 AM Mindset Thanks. Very weird you have to declare the same line of code twice for each button - but you do. Must have taken a while
June 19th, 2022 05:30 PM 215soleout619 Thank you very much for this...Awesome work.
October 9th, 2021 03:36 PM l1onel
July 24th, 2021 08:52 PM Abusamjad91 Thank you
March 13th, 2020 03:28 PM Koepisch Hi there @hobbys11, @trepidation,
i can't get it, what the "core time of NT8" really is. What has it to do with the dom and why the chart time has a negat
iv offset. If the chart lags i expect the chart time is the DOM time + x ms, isn't it?
Has it anything to to with the "data feed lag" calculation. Initially i looked for an indicator which compares the datet
ime of the incoming tick with the local computer time, to evaluate data feed / internet routing latency. I'm afraid, tha
t this has nochting to do with this indicator.
March 7th, 2020 06:47 PM trepidation Try installing the TickRefresh indicator to see if that fixes the problem. I know the chart doesn't refresh as quickly a
s the DOM and the TickRefresh indicator solves this issue at the expense of processing power in my experience.